Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-10
Dress Goods 81.
Al FL A L L p r [ C Z
/ reserve nothing In the
line of WOODEN Dress Goods,
Silks, Satinsor Velyets.
w M H = = y 10

cotton has so long held an undisputed su-
pIemaCy. my investment made jul l.
ciously in any of these cities will double
in value in the next ten years.
The development of these coal and iron
fields is proving of great benefit to the
South in opening up new fields of labor
for the negro. He is to be one of the
chief factors in the future wealth and
growth of the South. 1t requires more
brains than he has got to intelligently
cultivate the soil, but he is docile and
easily managed, and seems to take kin: ly
to the new and growing Industries. As
he aoandOnS the plantations, mis- place
will be taken by new ard better class
of labor.
EXTENT OF THE COAL FIELDS.
Birmingham, which owes its location
to the accident of misunderstanding in
! the location of railroad. is surrounded
and is adj cent to the coal flelds-the
Black Warrior, the Cahaba and the COosa,
named after the rivers which flow through
them.
The aggregate area of these fields IS
estimated at $3.50 square miles, about
equal in extent to the coal measures of
Great Britain. 1t is claimed, Gnd justly
so, that the coal measures ia two OF these
fields are the thickest in the United
States, and the coal in quality is not
surpassed by any coal so far discoV-
cred. 1t makes superio" quality ofcoke
and burns clean, leaving white ashes
and no cinders. So far thirty-seven work
able seams of coal have been found in the
B tsck Warrior field, each measuring from
three to fourteen feet in thickness. The
state geologist estimates the Black War
rIor field alone as follows: Available coal
area, 500 square miles; thickness of
seams, seventy-five feet; estimated ton
mage, 1880, 100000, or enough coal to
last 10 275 Years, mining 1000 tons per
day. The same authority estimates that
there are 4 ,000,00 600 tons of coal in the
Cahabs field, or supply sufficient to last
HOO years, using 10, 900 tons day. The
CoOsa field is the smallest, covering an
area OF about 700 square miles, with a
tonnage estimated at 100000, 900, which
would furnish 10000 tons per day for
l65 years, the whole making a nice
little lump of Alabams coal
seventy miles long, sixty miles
broad and ten feet thick, with a total
tonnage of ~, 100 600 coo. mixing sup
ply for II 800 years with a daily coz
sumption of 10 900 tons. And all OF this
within radius of 100 miles of my be-
loved Birmingham. Is it any wonder
that the streets are laid out in the woods
and real estate is bringing 500 foot
where the wildcat rosms and the preGen-
sive opossum hangs wonderingly from
the limb and gazes at the fires of the fur
naces and the progressive confusion?. 1t
will not be long before Alabama will be
carrying coal to Newcastle.
And all of this ooundless wealth, hesv-
en- be praised, we owe not to nature and
natures God. but to Pennsylvania and the
tariff on pig iron. Before the tariff came
to us with the war, with all the beauties
of bounties to rich rsscality and monop-
oily, there was not ton of pig iron
made in Alabama, and out little
coal mined and none shipped. Now the
little city of Birmingham, with her rail-
roads, burns more coal than the great
city of New Orleans, with all her ship
ping and manufacture! l fail down and
worship the wonderful wisdom that gave
us protective tariff, to build up our infant
industries and wOrkingmen, because l
find that ton of pig-iron can be made
in Alabama 81 ton cheaper than it can
be made in Pennsylvania, and there are